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Published: 2012-07-23 18:29:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 550947; Favourites: 23150; Downloads: 9821
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what exactly do you need to do to load a model? i've downloaded one like 3 times, but it won't appear in sketchup. :c
i'm not sure if i'm just doing something wrong or what.
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thanks so much for posting this ^o^
really helps a lot with me and my friend's otome game
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Haters gonna hate.
For the ones who want to spend less time/do not want to draw backgrounds/whatever, use it.
For those who don't like this method, then just search another.
Would use instagram filters be cheating too? :3
Technology and softwares must help us, and nope, this is not wrong.
Who in here could say that don't even need references to create stuff?
Nobody is that good to say what is and what is not art.
Great tutorial, btw :3
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This is a tutorial and people are being overly judgemental.
See,there is no problem doing this. I respect it just as much as other self-taught/traditional process. But I know this artist knows how to manually do backgrounds.However long it takes doesn't matter. But As stated, when given a time frame. What would you do? Especially if you are self-producing withought aid.
I can't speak for everyone.But I do see some of the users commenting negative on this feel the same.
Basically what I'm saying is:Always at least know the basics manually.I mean in the since of studying perspectives,angles etc. You could use this for Backgrounds and then be stumped because you can't draw your character in the correct angle.This is more suited towards what people are aiming at I beleive.Your goal/direction rather:How you want to portray,How you want it to be seen,and your time frame.
Don't come here much. But I doubt you could find a similar tutorial in a heart beat.
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I feel the need to just copy-and-paste 's comment in her description of another deviation about 3D backgrounds here, because of some of the comments here :/
"I noticed in some of the tutorial comments that not everyone understood why I choose to use 3D models, and asked if that's "cheating". I want to emphasize that the sole purpose of using 3D is for the sake of speed. Since Fisheye Placebo will be a fully colored panel by panel comic, it would save a lot of time to not have to draw the same background over and over again. The goal is to tell a story in a time efficient manner, not to see who can draw the best background without reference. So unless I'm lying about not using 3D when I actually am, it's not cheating, it's just a faster workflow. Nevertheless, it's still important to learn how to draw without 3D aid. I only started using the techniques mentioned in my tutorial about 1.5 months ago. Everything else before that was hand drawn. If you do not learn the old school way of drawing, you would not have the skill set you need to paint over the 3D models to make them look less stiff. 3D is not an easy way out of learning how to draw, it just speeds up the process for those who work in the comic industry. I hope that clarifies any confusion!"
That second-last sentence especially I think addresses both the "hooray, a way to draw easy backgrounds without learning proper perspective!" and "is this cheating?" comments I keep seeing here. `yuumei is not encouraging artists to avoid learning how to properly hand-draw a background, but rather showing others how she speeds up her work process when drawing backgrounds for her comics.
Just something I thought I might want to draw attention to, since I somehow doubt many of the commenters here have read that.
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Oh right, and the description is found here: [link] .
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Thank you for posting this tutorial! I'll have to play around with Sketchup later to see if I can make a good background from it, because it looks very useful for setting up the foundation of a background.
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Thanks for the awesome tutorial. I've been thinking of making the backgrounds for my visual novel in 3d, and this could come in handy.
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This is amazing, I really want to use it, but would this count as 'cheating' in art?
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late, but yes. It is cheating.
Also, all the professional artists use it to cheat, too. One of my professors did concept art for Star Wars and he built his own models to then paint over Draw smart
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There's no such thing. 
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Thank you *w* -Is now inspired-
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you are the god , yuumei! Thank you for the tutorial! This will immensely help a lot (especially when I'm a one-person team)
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This is really cool. Do you think it's possible to do this with just the GIMP program? That's the only one I have, and I have a mac so paint tool SAI won't work unfortunately. I'd love to try it though.
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I think it should be possible to make something like that with GIMP. I mean, there's a reason why she used 2 different programs. Just try, and find out
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Yeah, I'll try...just wanted to get an opinion before I downloaded the program (not sure if my poor little outdated mac could handle it lol)
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I swear to god. you make every thing seem so simple sometimes.
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I think it's important to add that while this is probably a helpful technique for tight deadlines, it's still very important to learn how to draw environments yourself, or at least make the 3D models yourself. It's a handy shortcut but nothing can beat something you created on your own the old-fashioned way: with study, hard work and attention to detail.
I'm worried that the most that some younger artists will take from this is "I can just grab shit from google and my art will be godly!". It doesn't work that way. Learning how to draw it yourself is the best course of action and this should serve as only a quick fix for tight deadlines. (And even then, if said deadline is school or work related it's still dishonest at best and illegal at worst)
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Well put. I feel the same. I'm not good at backgrounds. But I always tell myself to make sure I'm at least good at it manually before using any other source.
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Brilliant! This is going to help me out a ton, thanks :]
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Oh my god, your painting skill are like magic! This tutorial is the best for backgrounds i've ever seen!
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I really need to practice backgrounds
Thanks for all the help
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Thank you very much. I think this'll help me a lot
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I don't know if anyone can help me with this problem but when I downloaded sketchup it gave my computer the blue screen of death so I had to reset the system clock and delete Sketchup from computer. Whats weird is that I had the program for about 3 days and my computer was working perfectly until today. I'm going to try to download Sketchup again but if I get another Blue Screen that program is out.
If anyone reads this comment and if they have Sketchup would they mind telling me their experiences with the program and what might be the cause of the problems I'm experiencing?
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Since Sketchup is a RAM and CPU intensive program, your computer probably isn't powerful enough to run the program. Or your graphics card needs more recent drivers installed. :3
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i know this comment is old
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What CPU do you have installed? :3
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i have no idea
all it wants to tell me is that it is a 64 bit system? O_o
it's processor is a "AMD C-50 Processor 1.00 GHz"
my computer has a security issue and everytime i want to do anything or know anything (even delete annoying shortcuts) it asks me to write my adminstrator code... :C
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Oh, you work off of your parent's computer? Mine put one of those silly things up on their laptop which I find ridiculous considering I repair computers in my free time as a way to earn money. ;^^ I've even told them how easily I can go in and delete the registry file containing the password but it doesn't intimidate them and I have my own computer to tinker with.
Though if you want, you can try to install a program called SIW (System Information for Windows) it is an amazing program that comes free for any legitimate copy of windows. It allows you to view any specs on the computer your little heart desires. xD I absolutely love it. There is also a tool called "Evergreen" which is very similar. But, is just a tad different. :3
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no it's my own.... and i know the adminstrator code, it's just that i aaaaaallllwaaaayyyyysss wants me to enter it.... that computer is just paranoid.
lol... 
i guessed my parents code, and now they can't hide anything....!!!
oh well, thanks for the tip
i should try that
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Well, if you go into system settings you can turn off of the admin requests. :3
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I have a computer with windows 7 on it and an i5 processor so I think my computer should be powerful enough to handle most programs. It could be that I have a faulty graphics card though. I downloaded sketchup again and so far its working but I can't download huge buildings or else the program freezes. Anyways, thanks for the feedback I'll look into getting a better graphic card or perhaps installing better drivers.
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That is a nice computer. Try looking for newer graphics card drivers before going out and buying a new GPU though.
Good luck. :3
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wow, sounds good :3 I'll try it in next time xD
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wait so you don't actually create any of the environments in your work? you just take them from Google?
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`yuumei said that she has mostly been experimenting and practising with the program, and that it's a new tool she's begun using only a while ago. As well, she only uses this method for backgrounds that will appear repeatedly in her graphic novels in order to save time, and also creates the models for those backgrounds herself. They aren't simply "taken from Google," although it is true that others used in her practice are models created by others.
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First of all, this is absolutely amazing!!
But... Could somebody please help me..?
I was wondering about SAI. I've found two links from you, Yuumei, so far, and both seem to be trial versions, but I'm kinda afraid to download it... Will it ask me to buy it after 31 days? I don't want to risk anything...
Also, since I don't blindly trust the internet, those two links you suggested.
Is this one [link] in Japanese? Or do you (or anybody that uses SAI) rather request this one: [link] ?
I'm sorry if this shouldn't belong here... I got desperate because I heard a lot of great things about SAI and a good blending art program would help me so much...
Thanks to the ones who are so kind to help me with this! And a
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I searched "Sai Free Trial" on YouTube and instead I got this:
[link]
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I am so careful with all those links.. I don't know if I can trust it... But thank you for the answer! (:
Is there anything anybody knows about the links posted by Yuumei?
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